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I am willing to come out of retirement to count the traveling hobos, tramps, nomads, oogles, crust punks, and dirty kids, if someone can get me the $15 million a year for 2-3 years it would take to do it. Since this is about 5 times as much as the Feds will normally give to any kind of...

Far from being a "a detailed description of how to do it", my post is a very superficial description that leaves out all the details of actually doing this. Trust me, as someone who did this kind of thing for a living for decades, there are a lot of details to actual implementation of any study...

Beegod Santana: Good heavens, so self-righteous! How would a nomad census conflict with "rule 1 of the hobo code", which is "Decide your own life; don’t let another person run or rule you"? are some words that do not appear anywhere in the actual Hobo Code. Since the code dates from 1889, i...

There is a pretty large literature in social science and epidemiology on counting hard to access populations. i am the author of a couple articles on this topic in my former life as a scientist. One method that stands out as the best available is "capture-recapture". it comes from wildlife...